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I believe it was this forum that had a story of an INTJ being counseled about repressing emotion, to the point that the INTJ only knew of said emotion when it manifested physically?
NTs: Do you have this happen to you? Especially with stress?
As a 7w8, I like the high, but often don't recognize it as exhaustion/stress until there is a physical manifestation such as a breakout, depression, illness, or the like.
How do you deal/solve this?
I have had this quite a bit, aye. One of my primary problems is that, in all honesty, I feel emotions intensely and all that jazz - but expressing them coherently during the experience seems next to impossible sometimes. I'm trying to learn.
When it involves another person is when it gets tricky - anger that hasn't been dealt with, for instance - I think very carefully before I express it, so I don't end up frying their feelings in a wok with oil and a bit of Asian jalapenos.
For dealing with the stress and inner shite that hasn't been dealt with, I need to physically calm down first - take however long is needed to breathe, center myself, for the tension to seep out of my body. Ceecee made a good point regarding being seen as 'weak' - I had to get over that, in terms of realising that just because something involves emotions does not make it any less valid or natural. Another good thing she mentioned: don't put it off.